> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn > Sent: Tuesday, 16 August 2005 9:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [newbie] command line woes > > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:32 pm, Hugh Dixon tapped out: > > > or use midnight commander, (command - mc) which includes an edit > > function Hugh > > Ok. There are several things wrong with this picture and let > me point them out to you and the rest of the silly folks here. > > 1.) You're in a console, so console it be. Nothing > fancy-dancy and dressed up and graphical. Has to be CONSOLE > and TEXT ONLY (no ASCII lines or ANYTHING) >
If I'm forced to a console, it cos I've borked my Xserver. For me 'mc' is X-lite! > 2.) Folks in the Outback shouldn't even KNOW about mc > Outback? From someone in Illawarra? My place even has reticulated sewerage! > 3.) It's late in the evening. Hugh, you're supposed to be at > the pub shouting schooners to yer mates and NOT playing on > the computer with mc, let alone near a computer in the first > place after the first schooner. Schooners - Phut. Them is a NSW thing. Don't have schooners in respectable parts of the country :) > > 4.) You're an Aussie. Why use mc when you can use, say, a maddock? > > -- > -- > illawarra computer services > stephen kuhn > mobile: 0410-728-389 > illawarra and regional new south wales > Linux 2.6.11-12mdk AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ GNU/Linux > --------------------------------------------- > windows/mac/linux home and business solutions fix it right. > fix it now. fix it right now. > --------------------------------------------- > NON-FLAMMABLE, IS NOT A CHALLENGE > NON-FLAMMABLE, IS NOT A CHALLENGE > NON-FLAMMABLE, IS NOT A CHALLENGE > NON-FLAMMABLE, IS NOT A CHALLENGE > > Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode BABF13 > >
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